Exploring style groups

I want to introduce you to a feature in InDesign that I have really…mixed feelings about.…On the one hand, it's a feature that can be a huge help in organizing your…Paragraph and Character Styles, especially when you have a lot of them.…But On the other hand, the feature is flawed in some ways that makes me cautious…in how or when I would use it.…The feature is called Style Groups, and it's a way to group your styles…together into folders.…This document, the Roux Catalog file from the Exercise Folder, has a bunch of styles.…If I open the Paragraph Styles panel, you'll see them all listed here.…

This is a relatively simple document.…I've worked with some InDesign files that have dozens of paragraph styles in…them. But in this case, I'd like to simplify things by putting these paragraph…styles into folders.…The folders, or style groups as InDesign calls them, show up here at the bottom…of the InDesign Paragraph Styles panel.…But if I just click that button, it just adds a new folder at the bottom,…

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3/22/2013

In this course David Blatner builds on his Essential Training series, bringing his knowledge of and passion for Adobe InDesign to lessons that show you how to harness its power and functionality. This installment covers a wide range of advanced topics from interface customization to cutting-edge layout and text-formatting techniques. Learn how to set key application and document preferences, format long documents, match swatches, use GREP styles, and much more.